Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 19
This seems to be the first and greatest of a number of craters extending in a line from the great lake of fire in Kilauea to the seacoast many miles away.
Who acts: This, craters · What happens: seem, be, extend · To what, where: line
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, craters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 first | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 first | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 greatest | cc |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 first | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 number | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 greatest | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 craters | case |
| 13 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 craters | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extending | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lake | amod |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extending | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lake | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Kilauea | case |
| 25 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lake | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 seacoast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 seacoast | det |
| 28 | seacoast | seacoast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extending | obl |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 miles | amod |
| 30 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 away | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 extending | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | This | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | This not said here | greatest of a number of craters obl; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | extend | gerund | craters not said here | a line | from the great lake of fire in Kilauea; to the seacoast; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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